Show alic loain ancients can man ibach and pass alio ago of a bundled years is a question conecin ing which physiologists leavo opinions on was alio lii st ono in france to baito alic question of tho extreme limit of lie in ins opinion man becoming udall nt sixteen ought to live to six lining that ago or lo 10 ninety six years having been called upon to account for tin phenomenal ages bytho biblo to the patriarchs ho risked the following as sin explanation llie issod alio earth was less solid less compact than it is auw the law of gravitation aad for only 11 little timo alio lions of the globo had ass consistency and tho body of man being dioro ile was more susceptible of extension libio able to grow for a longer lime it should in consequence UTO lor a longer lime than now aliu german has suggested on alic baic point eliat alic did not divide lime as wo do to tins of abraham alio llio boar among some people of the east was only tarvo or a season BO that they had a of spring one of summer one ol 01 fall and bac ot winter iho year was extended to as to consist of eight months after abraham and of twelve months after joseph voltaire rejected the longevity assigned to tho patriarchs of alic bibic but accepted without question tho stones of thu great ages attained by some men in india where lin says it is not rare to acco old men of one hundis 1 l and twenty carsi alio eminent french physiologist using alic complete development of man at twenty years teaches that lie should lio five times as long as it takes him to become an adult according to this author alio moment of a completed development may be recognized by alio fact of the junction of the bones with this junction place in buries at live years and the horse docs not lo 10 beyond twenty five years with ox at four years and it does no live oer twenty years with alio llio cat at eighteen months and that animal rarely lives over ten years with roan it is effected at twenty cars and be only exceptionally lives beyond one hundred henrs 1 be same physiologist admits that human life may bo exceptionally prolonged under certain conditions of coin foit sobriety from care regularity nf habits md observance of llie fulua of and he terminates his study of the last point kiili tho aphorism man kills himsel rather than dies M Ds in president arthur pound total |